Passage 7

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In plain words

Into a head that holds nothing you can put anything; a head that is full of all sorts of things cannot be filled. Can a skull full of the teachings of Kali become empty? Unless the skull becomes empty, can good wisdom be filled into it on this earth? They wept when they were born, they wept when they died; in between they weep over things, for this and for that; did they weep to raise Dharma up when it declined? What did they weep for? Did they weep for the sake of weeping!

… we must weep for Śānti. We must weep for Dharma. We must weep for God. We must weep for Satya. That is true humanness. We weep over things base, petty and passing.

Embodiments of the divine Ātma! Spirituality means we must … develop the joy that belongs to the mind. We must sacrifice the folly that has piled up in us from our varamulu. We must … holy Prema. I and you are one. 'I and you are one': a feeling of oneness … … must begin from I and reach as far as we. But we begin from I and reach only as far as I. … there are two kinds of 'I'. Individual 'I' fundamental I: these are there, one of each. … letter I; the second, eye, three letters. eye is selfish. The one letter, 'I', as it is said. In mathe…matics this is called one. 1+1+1+1+1=5 but 1-1=0. This grows and shrinks with + and -. … … I+I+I…=I. It does not grow, it does not shrink. That itself is

That is full, this is full; from the full the full comes forth; taking the full from the full, the full alone remains.

… form. Hold on to the feeling of the Ātma, the 'I' that is within you. That is our freedom. As one pleases … … is not freedom. Knowledge of the Ātma, control by the Ātma, Ānanda of the Ātma. In knowledge of the Ātma the Ātma is chie… …; in control by the Ātma the Ātma is chief. In the Ānanda of the Ātma the Ātma is chief. In all of them it is the Ātma… …. So there must be self-confidence. In this self confidence itself self satisfaction comes. In … satisfaction itself you do self sacrifice. Only when you do this self sacrifice does self-…ction come.

Embodiments of Prema! self confidence foundation. This is very much needed today.